My story with Cliff Farm started right as soon as I got out of the vehicle.
The first thing you see is the deli located in the front, and when you leave the meal you also understand why - you will no doubt want to buy more of this food when you leave.
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Cliff Farm is a meat restaurant, but it is also more than that - not just chunks of weight or banal dishes.
On the menu you will find varied entrees, salads, mains, bread dishes and of course slices from the place's butcher shop.
We ordered the carpaccio, chopped liver, Majhol kebab, Caesar salad, asado snacks, the dirty burger, the Wagio burger and a slice of prime rib (entrecote).
The first to come to the table were the carpaccio, liver and kebab.
One dish is lemony, the other is textured and the last is sweet and sophisticated.
Majhol Kebab Cliff Farm, Photo: Nadav Margalit
If in the past I grew up on the phrase “lemon adds a lot” then in the carpaccio dish it was definitely evident, with the sourness of the lemon giving a wonderful kick to the dish.
The carpaccio came without special manners in appearance, but rich in flavor and wonderfully mellow.
Beside him, especially for the Majhool kebab with the clever name, this sophistication was not enough.
The dish came as a date palm (Majhool, of course) with the kebab sitting inside.
In general, the dish looked promising, but in the taste test the combination of the sweetness of the date and the kebab meat was not balanced, and the taste of the date overshadowed the dish so much that the meat was almost imperceptible, which is a shame.
Another dish that came to the table were the asado snacks coated in a barbecue crust with a coleslaw salad next to them.
Unlike the kebab, here the sweetness blended in excellently and made me relish the dish with each bite.
Immediately afterwards the star of the meal arrived with a sweeping consensus among those sitting at the table, the dirty burger.
To tell the truth, I never thought I would be in a meat restaurant and the taste that would remain on my tongue would actually be of the hamburger, but in the first bite of the dirty burger I had no doubt that it was a love story, and one that would leave me wanting more.
Dirty Burger, Cliff Farm, Photo: Gal Calderon
The patty consists of local Holstein meat topped with smoked corned beef, onion jam and vegetables, and closes with a bun smeared with truffle mayonnaise that just made me want to finish the bread with or without the patty.
Between the tender and juicy meat and the crunchiness of the corned beef, an excellent combination of textures is created, with above all the onion jam winning that adds a playful sweetness to the finish.
It is true that there is a recurring motif with the matter of sweetness, but after going through the beginning it blends in throughout the meal.
At the end of all this meat celebration, a real slice also arrived, the Prime Rib.
The dish was rich in fat on the bone that enriched the bite which was light anyway, and slid well down the throat.
We finished with hail pudding, the kind that makes the phrase "dessert has a separate stomach" become very true.
The dessert arrived warm and comforting for a rainy winter day with a salty caramel sauce drizzled over it, dominating the sweetness accurately.
New York Steak, Cliff Farm, Photo: Netanel Israel
You could say that the experience at Cliff Farm was definitely surprising.
When you come for the famous portions and stay for the other dishes on the menu, there is no doubt that you can take a number in advance to queue at the nearby deli, because you are sure to enter it at the end.
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